A FORMER prison guard told a woman how to smuggle drugs into Berrimah jail, passed messages between criminals and convinced a colleague to illegally access the Corrections database to find a phone number for the Darwin Rebels outlaw motorcycle gang boss.

Sarah Dawn Rudd, 26, held her six-month-old son when she faced the NT Supreme Court yesterday.

Her partner Anthony Butt, a firefighter, supported her in court. The pair were charged over steroids imported from Thailand when the public service drug and corruption ring was unravelled.

John Tippet QC said his client had a tough time on remand for two months – after she was arrested with ecstasy pills and 1.5g of the drug ice in her undies during a drug deal at Le Cornu, Winnellie – because of her job as a guard.

Mr Tippett said the crimes, mostly detected on police surveillance and phone taps, were “unacceptable” but harmless.

Justice Jenny Blokland said the harm was in compromising the integrity of Corrections.

Rudd admitted 12 crimes committed between March and June of 2013.

Crown prosecutor David Morters told the court she used fellow guard Dwayne Reichelt to access confidential information to find out if her alleged drug dealer Phillip Noel Kaye – a civilian who remains in custody over the scandal – had been arrested when she had trouble contacting him.

Mr Morters said Kaye was on remand when Rudd contacted his girlfriend Zailey Ainslie and told her to smuggle cannabis into the prison by hiding it in her top lip – but the call was intercepted.

He said Rudd undermined control of the prison and pushed for a jail sentence, but Justice Blokland said she would have to consider the breastfed baby in her penalty and would probably order a pre-sentence report.

Rudd passed messages from prisoner Jared Davis, a Rebels bikie, to James Hau, who was arrested with 14 guns that former navy sailor Matthew Evans stole from a patrol boat at Larrakeyah, telling him that Davis wanted him to organise cannabis supply to the prison through Kaye.

She also told Hau what evidence Davis wanted him to give about the firearms.

Mr Morters said Hau had planned to trade the guns to the Rebels in exchange for “dangerous drugs”.

He said Rudd was “trying to endear herself” to the gang when she convinced a colleague to give her Rebels president Ricky Carter’s phone number so she could attempt to contact him.

She also pressured a woman to drop assault charges against Kaye and passed him info about southern meth-dealer Joshua Able moving into his territory. The case continues.